Upholstering



J. HEITZENREDER, JR.

UPHOLSTERING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 27` 1920.

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UNITED STATES JACOB HEITZENREDER, JR., or DETROIT; MICHIGAN. ,i

l UPHOLSTERING.

i Speci'cationof Letters Patent.y Patented Sept. 21, 1920 Application led February27, .192,0. Serial No. 361,839.

Be it'known that I, JACOB I-IEITZENREDER,

idr., citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in .Upholstering, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to upholstering and has for its object anew` method of constructing cushions with coverings with straight piping or so-called French plaits. The in- -Jjvention also results in a new and better Icushion for it can be tacked and drawntaut onl the same thread of the cloth so that it -ing cloth, either the foundation or facing,

does not pull on the bias and get the coverout of shape and wrinkled.' Furthermore, it enables the piecing together of odd pieces of expensive upholstering cloth that would otherwise be waste; These and other objects will better appear when the prior practice and this improvement is described.

In the drawings,- Figure 1 is a cross bile seat back.

section of an automo- Fig. 2 is a frontielevation ofthe same,V

fragmentary in character. y

Fig. 3 1s a perspective showmghow the i upholstering facing is sewed to the foundation cloth. Y

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary enlarged view showing a warp thread of contrasting color.

Fig. 5 is a'section on the line 5 5 of Fiv. 2. f

The ordinary automobile seat is upholstered by placing a set of springs a, which may be of various constructions, against the back seat panel b between' the upper trim rail d and the lower trim rail 0.' The springs are usually covered with burlap or other cloth e and then a layer of curled hair f laid over the springs. Over this is drawn an upholstering cover designated generally g and which is tacked at L to `the upper' trim ra1l f and at z' to thelower trim rail. This upholstering covering has in the past generally been tufted. Now the so-called French plaits or straight piping has come into vo ue.

'These straight pipes or French plaits are made by taking the foundation cloth y', usually burlap or some other rough material, and sewin to this the leather, imitation leather, clot i or other facing that is to be the outside material for the upholstering; The seams are made in parallel upright lines and on the inside of thefacirig of' the upholsteringfor the purpose of guiding the operator'ln sewingthe facing and foundation cloth together. AThis marking has been done y withthe aid of a patternin the form of a plurality of spaced cleatsy fastened together by cross pieces. This pattern is placed over the foundation cloth and o ver the inside of the facing and the 'marker rapidly rules the vertical, lines on both the foundation cloth and on the facing that are to be used as guides in making the seams. The trouble with this method is that it requires av separate operation in production and results in a very uneven spacing and irregularity of the lines for the reasonthat no matter how much care is used the cloth or other material shifts when the pattern is put on it and the pencil or other marker is drawn across it.

In some places the lines may be 3% apart While others they may be 3% or 4 apart, depending upon how much the shift hasguide lines for the foundation cloth; n the l guide lines furthe facing material. The guide lines for the facing material are spaced .tb give suchfullness as is shown at y0 in Fig. .5, for itis the vfacing material that bulges t give the pipe or plaiting effect. To form these pockets the operator lays 'theupper facing material upon the foundation cloth, matching the guide lines m and n with that portion of the upper facing that has not yet been used forcpockets turned back to the right, as shown -in Fig. 3. A seam is then made by the lines of stitches p. v After this 'seam is made the operator' brings the next guide line n in registry with the next guide line lml and the operation is repeated, and so on until the Whole line of pockets is formed. As already explained, with the old way of forming the guide lines these Apockets were often quite irregular, resulting in irregularity of appearance.

with the threads except accidentally, thatv is Furthermore, 'these guide lines are never placed on a hne obli uely over the threads. -The consequence is, w en the tacks are put in to nail' the upu holstering .the bias stretch.

to' the top and bottom'ltrirn rail and the stretching is done, very often .the goods is pulled on the bias, the result being to Wrinkle the foundation cloth and thefac- `ing, and these wrinkles are hard to eliminate by pulling out at right angles to the line ofy It is desirable to do the stretching on the line of 'a single thread where there is never any wrinkling or puckering to have to get out.

My improvement guide line that is wherever'the facing is of a substance such as whip cord, velour, or other fabric material which has a thread construction or part` spacing of the guide-lines, it furnishes a guide in stretching and tacking the upl'iolstering cover which venables the stretching to be done directly on the thread line and not on the bias, and it results in a very material saving in lahor cost and the heretofore useless operation of marking the guide lines onthe material before it is put on the ljob. It will readily be understood that this warp thread of color may be introduced into the material in weavlng it without any additional cost whatever-simply some of the spools in the loom will be a colored thread, lpreferablv black, spaced the requisite distance. rfhe guide threads will hence be Woven accurately into the material itself.

With a foundationcloth this can always be 'done as it is almost without fail of such fabric as burlap or other-'similar material.

wWith a facing material, Where this is a fabric such a velour, Whip cord or similar cloth material, used in closed body trimming, the

thread may be woven in the back of the material and will not show -in the face of the material. The same istrue with imitation leather which usually has a fabricfoundavf-tion. Of course, where leatheris used this 'consists in utilizing a manufactured. into thefoundation cloth or into the `facing cloth cannot be done, and the marking .has to be done on the back of the leather by an impression. The leatherdoes not present the same difficulty in the way of shifting the material under the pattern. When the up- \holstering covering is tacked to the trim rails the tacks can be put in on the line of the guide lines and the material pulled ti ht along theselines. without an fear of wrinkling or puckering the goods cause he can be sure he is not pulling on the bias over the foundation cloth or the facing. When the guide lines are irregular the lines of stitches become irregular and often complete andthe job will be rejected. Another very useful and valuable feature of the uide lines manufactured into the matenial 1s' that odd lpieces of expensive upholstering material that would otherwise be waste can be vpieced together on the guide lines and "used,l When stitched together on the guide lines, the trimmer knows that the otherwise objectionable seams will always fall under the plaits where they will he unobiectionable.

What' I claim is: l. An upholstering covering, comprising The trimmer can do t is` show when the plaits are'V a foundation cloth and a facing material,

2. An upholstering covering, comprising a relatively heavy and strong fabric WithY v u lines luiving definite spacings and a color contrasting with the main body' of the fab-l ric l rugmufacture'd into the fabric along single threads to act as stitch guide lines. in vmaking Aplaits or straight pipes and to actI as stretchinfT lines in tacking.

8. An uplio'lsteri'ng cloth, comprising arelatively heavyv and strong fabric with threads of contrasting color-"woven into the fabricwith the other threads at determined intervals to act as stitch guide lines in 'make ing plaits or straight pipes and to act as stretching lines in tackmg.

In testnnony whereof I aflix m si ature.

JACOB UEITZENREE' JR.

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